"...toward the Otherworld I dream, yearning to be free..."
Druidry
Coming Home - Part 1
The spiritual, emotional, psychological goals we seek – of love, peace, trust, wisdom and so on – need time and the space to ‘arrive’ in our lives. It is in the silence, the gaps, the waiting, the ‘not knowing’, the reverence for the ‘Other’, that we have a chance to connect ourselves to something more than our wandering minds and anxious hearts. ~ Philip Carr-Gomm
Much has passed since I last checked-in here. The Gregorian Calendar year has passed, the Celtic and Druid year has passed, and we’ve moved through the dark of winter near Imbolc, the first light of Spring. My beloved Katy Grace and I traveled to the United Kingdom - England, Scotland, and Ireland - for our belated honeymoon, we attended our first OBOD Gathering, and America has elected and inaugurated a new president. I’ve also been caught in a loop of what is perhaps the busiest work schedule I’ve ever lived through, and have been struggling to maintain sanity, let alone remain grounded in spiritual and musical practice.
I have so many tales and thoughts from these past few months that I scarcely know where to begin. But here I’ll offer a brief overview of the honeymoon, with some follow-on posts that delve more deeply into the openings, awakenings and synchronicities of these past few months.
The Goose And The Druid
Crossposted from the website of Philip Carr-Gomm, Chosen Chief of the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids.
In a recent interview I was asked: Why have you chosen Druidry as your spiritual path? I have always been interested in many different forms of spirituality, and for me the name or label I give to the path I tread is not so important, because I think we each have to create our own path in many ways. But what I like about Druidry is that it is an approach that is designed to help me feel grounded and rooted in my depths. And it is light on dogma and philosophy and heavy on soil, rain, fire and wind. It’s like a goose. A goose? The goose is the bird that flies the highest in the sky but in the farmyard it is strutting around in the mud. I want a spirituality that can take me very high but which also allows me time to splash about in the mud. At our summer camps we often build a mudpit and just splash about in it. I like an approach that allows me to do serious rituals and meditations and also sit naked in a mudbath.
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